To: John Doyle who wrote (943 ) 3/1/2004 1:35:42 PM From: Jim Willie CB Respond to of 116555 I like these Canadians, esp ATH.V, CDU.V, TKO.V the smaller the better, provided they make discoveries prices below are dated January 20th MINERAL & RESOURCE STOCKS TO PROFIT IN CURRENT ENVIRONMENT: Athlone Minerals Ltd C$1.60 (ATH.V in Canada, ALMLF for US equivalent) corp website: athlone.com Exploration and development of oil & gas in western Canada. Vice president of exploration David Smith was instrumental in discovering over 15 trillion cubic feet of gas and oil ($70 billion at today's prices) equivalent with Shell Canada. The majority of Shell profits still come from Smith's projects from the 1960's. *** Dr Richard Appel's top pick for year 2004 (see article) Cardero Resource Corp C$2.45 (CDU.V in Canada, CUEAF for US equivalent) corp website: www.cardero.com Exploration of silver in Argentina, as well as copper/gold (IOCG) projects in Mexico, and Peru. Anglo American is their partner in Mexico. Cassidy Gold Corp C$1.15 (CDY.V in Canada, CSYGF for US equivalent) corp website: www.cassidygold.com/s/Home.asp With two drill campaigns involving 1608 meters completed in 2003, CDY has confirmed a substantial discovery with intersections of both narrow high grade zones (100 grams gold, over 3.5 meters) and broad consistent lower grade zones (5.12 grams over 27 meters) on their Kouroussa project in Guinea, West Africa. There are numerous additional targets to be drilled in the coming months. International Barytex Resources Ltd C$1.38 (IBX.V in Canada, IBYXF for US equivalent) corp website: www.barytex.com Barytex can earn 75% of a tin/zinc project ($3.5 billion gross metal value) in Yunnan province, China. IBX Chairman Roman Shklanka sold Sutton Resources to Barrick Gold for $525 million, is also chairman of Canico (CNI-TSX) $11.95, with a mktcap of over $370 million. IBX mktcap is under $25 million. Kenrich-Eskay Mining Corp C$0.83 (KRE.V in Canada, KREKF for US equivalent) corp website: www.kenrich-eskay.com KRE holds a 100% interest in thirty-two contiguous mining claims in the Eskay Creek area of British Columbia. The mining claims have the potential of hosting Eskay Creek types of transitional mineralization including gold, silver, copper, lead & zinc. New Bullet Group C$0.42 (NBG.V in Canada, NBULF for US equivalent) corp website: www.newbulletgroup.com John Andrews, former president and chief operating officer of Stillwater Mining ($832 million mktcap) will focus his attention on the exploration of two gold projects in Brazil, and a silver project in Mexico. Palladon Ventures Ltd C$0.60 (PLL.V in Canada, PLLVF for US equivalent) corp website: www.palladonventure.com Now that George Young's Mag Silver is well on its way, he can turn his attention on PLL's phase two of exploration on four of its gold projects in Argentina. Drilling is scheduled to commence in February 2004. PLL has entered into an agreement to acquire a 65% interest in over 41,000 acres of mineral rights in the western Utah copper district. Taseko Mines Ltd C$2.00 (TKO.V in Canada, TKOCF for US equivalent) corp website: www.tasekomines.com Taseko plans on restarting Canada's largest copper mine (Gibraltar) with a capacity of 80 million pounds per year, and a 15-year supply. In place is a $200 million infrastructure. The Prosperity gold-copper deposit is another project also in development. Gibraltar has 4.7 billion pounds of copper. Prosperity has 2.3 billion pounds of copper, and 6.7 million ounces of gold.